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Being Human
Joy Harjo has a book titled How We Became Human. She opens it with an epigraph by Nizzar Kabbani: What kind of nation is this Deleting Love from its curriculum The mystery of a women's eyes What kind of nation is this Battling each rain cloud... You do not have to...
You Have to See Cory Mann’s Smokin’ Fish
It must be December because it is so darn dark this morning. There's that, and the alarm clock flashed 3:36 when I heard my husband loading the wood stove and a roof-a-lanche thundered off the eave above my head and crashed onto the porch roof below making the little...
The Art of the Possible: Leave Chilkoot Be
Last night as I was sliding along the snowy roads to the Haines Borough Assembly meeting, a commentator on the radio, speaking of some other bigger deal far away-- not the hydro-electric dam proposed for a little lake in the upper Chilkoot valley-- quoted Bismarck,...
Another Snow Day! Breaking News.
Yes. No school. The library is closed, the clinic is closed. The senior center is closed. No pre-school, no Headstart. The post office is even closed. Steve on the radio says, "only the emergency and snow clearing personnel should be out right now." Yikes. This is...
Snow on Snow on Snow
Short Term Forecast Special Weather Statement Winter Storm Warning Really, is there anymore to say this morning? Okay, "1-2 feet of additional snow" might be good to know. And the dreaded word "warmer" and "highs near 34" which means we need to get the snow...
Sunday’s Thought
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." --Albert Einstein
Lighting a Winter Wonderland
I told my husband no one would be at the annual Lighting of the Library, and that we had better get there on time. The latest snow was shin deep and falling hard. Then again, since it was about the fifth storm, and not as big as two of the others, we are getting...